A festa como modo de existir e resistir ao lazer colonizado

Abstract

In this writing, we challenge ourselves to think about contracolonizing leisure, or parties, as we understand them. The first idea we have is that the party exists and resists since before colonization until the present day, and, even with several attempts to erase it, it is present. We circulate through Nêgo Bispo’s thoughts, which provoked us to reflect on the party in Afro-diasporic and indigenous traditions and its resistance in some communities and, in particular, in the Cultural Group Meninas de Sinhá. Such ideas led us to overcome leisure, due to its linearity, and brought us closer to the circularity of the party. It led us to understand that we need to (re)create, (re)appropriate festive time. Thus, contracolonizing consists of an urgent paradigm to reverberate in the field of Leisure Studies with the potential to access frontiers exalted by diversity and as a way to engage in organic andsensitive experiences in which knowledge and memories circulate

Keywords

• contracolonizing
• colonization
• party
• leisure
• collectivity